Dr Nicolette Makovicky
Dr Makovicky is Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies. She joined OSGA in 2010 after a three-year Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford. She previously taught on the MA in History of Design at the Royal College of Art, and tutored Anthropology at St. Peter’s College, Oxford.
Dr Makovicky researches the survival and adaptation of historically embedded modes of economic activity in Central Europe, particularly artisanal crafts and transhumant pastoralism. She has published on themes including labour, ethics, informal economy, gender, and entrepreneurialism in Slovakia and Poland. Dr Makovicky also studies the history of textile crafts in Eastern Europe, focusing particularly on the ideological appropriation of crafts into projects of Communist state-building.
Dr Makovicky is PI on the AHRC-funded project Gender Wars: East and South and runs the Lace in Context website together with Prof David Hopkin (Herford College, Oxford).
Supervisees:
- Dr Johana Wyss (completed 2018)
- Dr Marija Norkunaite (completed 2023)
- Dr Barbara Roggeveen (completed 2023)
- Dr Sofia Borushkina (Politechnico Milano) (completed 2024)
- Dr Jan Farfal (completed 2024)
- Dr Megi Kartsivadze (completed 2025)
- Ms Talia Kollek
- Ms Sarah Eagan
- Ms Jitka Kralova (SSEES/UCL)
- Ms Iryna Zamuruieva
- Ms Barbora Tallova
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